Bug#399930: logrotation race condition with exim writing to logs

Dominic Hargreaves dom at earth.li
Thu Nov 13 10:46:00 UTC 2008


On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 01:39:55PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 11:38:30PM +1100, CaT wrote:
> > Testing as to wether or not the logfile exists does not test wether
> > exim is functioning. It's the logrotation that creates the logfile 
> > and so a test for its presence is a test for logrotation and nothing
> > more. As such you need to have your monitoring system test further in
> > order to report the right thing.
> 
> There is no such "your" monitoring system. This package is installed
> on thousands of systems, and some of them are doing monitoring, which
> you classify as "broken", because they have been relying on the log
> file existing and have not special cased the case where the log file
> does not exist.

Having just been hit by this at work, I'm wondering if there is any
compromise to be made here. Could you provide any additional information
about what these log monitoring systems are, so that we can see if there
is a way to fix them?

Cheers,
Dominic.

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